1. MP CyberNode Report
On the road with collective intelligence

2. Focus on CI, RDFa, Drupal
• Programming in Drupal as a Collective Intelligence Platform
(Drupal has RDFa in core)
• RDFa Resource Description Framework (attributes)
• Readying a generic CI Portal for hosted use or delivery as a
hardware package
• Two prototypes Korea GCCSR, Kuwait EWS

3. Korea GCCSR EWS
•News Aggregator
•Scanning System
•Situation Room
•First Prototype CI
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4. The GCCSR Building Gimcheon
Initial staff and guests

5. Kuwait PMO EWS
•News Aggregator
•EWS Scanning
•Futures Methods
•Situational Awareness

6. Kuwait - EWS

7. Where Have We Come From
Where Are We Now
Where Are We Going
How Do We Get There

8. Roots of Futures Methodologies
Pre History • Ancient Times • Middle Ages Modern Era Meta Industrial Era
Pantheism Science & Religion Positivism TransPersonal
Visionaries Visionaries
Divination Utopians Visionaries
• Descartes • Oscar Ichazo
• Shamanism, • Mercier • Arthur Clarke
• DaVinci • John Lilly
• Mythology, • • Bucky Fuller
• Newton • W.I.Thompson
• Taoism Condorcet
• Pascal Futuribles • Willis Harman
• Oracle Delphi • Turgot
• B. de Jouvenel • Mark Markley
Philosophers • Dennis Gabor
• Fourier ScienceFiction Integral Futures
• Comte • H.G. Wells, Futures Research • Ken Wilber
• Marx • Jules Verne • Club of Rome • R. Slaughter
• Hudson Institute • S. Inayatullah

9. Obstacles to Soft Side Thinking
Cognitive Illusions
• Functional Fixedness
• Physical & Mental Blind Spots
• Cultural Programming
• Mechanistic & Deterministic Models
• Reductionist Empiricism

10. Psychological Fixation Blocks Creativity & Vision
Making it hard to adapt to such rapid change
Examples of Functional Fixedness:
• Using steam to pump water to water wheels instead
of driving the mill directly
• Including buggy whip holders on the first automobiles
• Constraining computer mediated communications to
function like regular mail.
• Using multi media to produce interactive Books and
Movies or otherwise emulate existing media.
• Comparing Cyberspace to the Interstate Highway System
Familiar Metaphors encourage Functional Fixedness

11. Functional Fixedness
A Legacy of Positivist Thinking that is one of the
Greatest Barriers to Mastering the Soft Methodologies

12. A Key Recurring Thought
“Significant problems cannot be
solved at the same level of thinking
that created them.”
Albert Einstein

13. New Focus on Soft Side
Methodologies
Integrating Indigenous Wisdom, Deep Ecology, Transpersonal Insights & Methods

14. Refocus on Human Meaning & Purpose
Broaden the bandwidth of communication technology to
encourage emergent communication & organization styles

15. Modern Roots of the Transpersonal
• Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way
• De Chardin’s Noosphere
• Ichazo’s Arica Institute
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Grof’s Altered States of Consciousness
• Jung’s Collective Unconscious

16. Abraham Maslow’s
Self Actualization
Hierachy of Needs Is Not An End Point
But a Self Renewing Drive
A Humanistic Guide
to Homo Digitalis
From Survival to Self Actualization
A Template for specifying design
parameters for new technologies
to ensure the emergence of
Humanism in the Digital World.

17. Human/Organizational Challenges
• The Hanover Principles
• Focus on Meaning & Purpose
• SOCBED (Self Organizing
Community-Based Economic
Development
• Convolving Space & Cyberspace
• Lessons for Planning New Cities

18. Methods and Tools
• Polynesian Voyaging
• Cultivating the Network of mind
• Cultivating the Mind of the Network
• Cultivating New Business Models

19. Ancient Polynesian Voyaging
• Circumnavigating the Pacific
• No Compass, Sextant, GPS
• Communicating with Ocean,
Wind, Atmosphere,
Temperature, Tides, Currents

20. Cultivating the Network of Minds
• Learning Community/
Appreciative Systems
• Storytelling - Indigenous
Wisdom
• Transpersonal &
Quantum Metaphors
• Multi-Spectral Work Place
Environments
• T. Autonomous Zones

21. Cultivating the Mind of the Network
• Self Org. Community
Based Economic Dev.
• Social Network Agents
• Semantic Web, RDFa
• Convolving Cyber and
Physical Spaces
• Serious Games...

22. Emerging Maps of Ubiquitous Convolved Cyber-Space
Fully
Convolved
MetaVerse
A visual taxonomy of different modes of communication and
interaction created by designer Nathan Shedroff

23. Cultivating Emergent Business Models
• Maruyama’s Morpho-
Genetic Joint Ventures
• Open Source- Cathedral
& the Bazaar, Clue Train
Manifesto
• Temporary Autonomous
Zones as Incubators
• Positive Sum Serious
Games, Increasing
Returns

24. Some Examples of Soft Side
Methodologies
• Adventure Theater
• SOCBED

25. Group Methodologies
Require Unusual
Environments
For Best Results
• Temporary Autonomous Zones
• Open Space Technology Meetings
• Adventure Theater
• SYNCONS

26. Adventure Participatory Methodology
based on principles of Social Architecture.
Theater
Myth, Story Telling, Humanistic
and Transpersonal Psychology,
Theater Exercises, Native
American Spirituality, Shamanic
Journeying, Taoism, Gestalt, and
new Western Theories of Mind
(eg Howard Gardner) and
approaches to Organizational
Change (eg. Margaret
Wheatley, Peter Senge, and
David Cooperrider.

27. SOCBED Research Methodology
Self Organizing Community
Based Economic Development
A Participatory Futures
WayFinders Cybercafe &
Community Visioning Center
A learning community
action research experiment
in Maui, Hawaii. Starring the
Ke Ala Hoku children’s Vision
for Hawaii’s Future.

28. Millennium Project Second Life Campus